Smart Neanderthal. Bird hunting, cave art and cognitive revolution

Trying to figure out in the past and the abilities of our ancestors who lived in the Pleistocene, we do not pay enough attention to the variety of relationships that could be established between people and animals. Our distant ancestors were the best of natural scientists who have ever lived on Earth, and we will not be able to fully comprehend them if we limit ourselves to the study of skulls, stone tools or traces of cutting of prey remaining on the bones.
But we can understand them from the inside, together with the author, plunging into their environment and watching the animals that they saw on which they hunted and which, perhaps, worshiped.
"In many books, the results of scientific searches are presented, but there are no details about what happened in the process of research, ”said Finley. “I also want to talk about extraordinary pleasure from work among birds who once formed the neighbors of Neanderthals and their relatives.”